Klarinet Archive - Posting 000427.txt from 2010/09

From: "Shaw, Tim" <Tim.Shaw@-----.au>
Subj: Re: [kl] Mozart concerto
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2010 22:35:22 -0400


Tony Pay's recording of K622 is also terrific. It really does sound "spontaneous" - almost improvised in parts, in a way that very, very few classical musicians ever manage and only the most brilliant jazz musicians achieve routinely. Here's a review by "SP" from the "Gramophone" of 1986 which scarcely does it justice

"I wondered at first whether the acoustic in K622 was very slightly over-resonant----and then forgot about it. The performances are all of a piece. I have enjoyed them more and more. The soloists are strong musical personalities, as they need to be, not just expert players, and Antony Pay's performance strikes me as outstanding: spontaneous in character, rich in detailed inflexion, and at the same time projected with a long-range musical thinking that makes for a satisfying reading one is glad to return to. Pay is a soloist who picks you up at the beginning of the Concerto and puts you down only at the very end; and you feel that the orchestra have responded to him in that way too. Having played the Adagio as slowly as he dares, he brings a touch of urgency to the finale which I particularly like, giving that movement a sharper character than we often hear and making it a livelier foil to what has gone before. His ritenuto at the end of the Adagio is the only feature of his performance I don't care for."

I think I recall seeing something on the list from Tony in which he mentioned he wouldn't do it that way now, which makes me wonder....
Tim Shaw
Australia

-----Original Message-----
From: Williams-DeVries, Kathy [mailto:Kathy.Williams@-----.com]
Sent: Wednesday, 15 September, 2010 7:48 AM
To: 'klarinet@-----.com'
Subject: [kl] Mozart concerto

Hello

I have Tony Pay's recording of the Mozart Quintet on a period instrument and if I can get even a 10th of the musicality and beauty he brings to an already wonderful piece, I would die a very happy Telstra worker.

Kind regards

Kathy Williams-DeVries
Netcracker Order Entry Consultant
Customer Service Delivery
Customer Care, Telstra Enterprise and Government
Telstra Corporation Limited 1800 025 222

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